Ethno-pornography : sexuality, colonialism, and archival knowledge
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Ethno-pornography : sexuality, colonialism, and archival knowledge
Duke University Press, 2020
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Ethnopornography : sexuality, colonialism, and archival knowledge
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of race and colonialism as well as archival and ethnographic knowledge. Among other topics, they analyze eighteenth-century European travelogues, photography and the sexualization of African and African American women, representations of sodomy throughout the Ottoman empire, racialized representations in a Brazilian gay pornographic magazine, colonial desire in the 2007 pornographic film Gaytanamo, the relationship between sexual desire and ethnographic fieldwork in Africa and Australia, and Franciscan friars' voyeuristic accounts of indigenous people's "sinful" activities. Outlining how in the ethnopornographic encounter the reader or viewer imagines direct contact with the Other from a distance, the contributors trace ethnopornography's role in creating racial categories and its grounding in the relationship between colonialism and the erotic gaze. In so doing, they theorize ethnography as a form of pornography that is both motivated by the desire to render knowable the Other and invested with institutional power.
Contributors. Joseph A. Boone, Pernille Ipsen, Sidra Lawrence, Beatrix McBride, Mireille Miller-Young, Bryan Pitts, Helen Pringle, Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, Neil L. Whitehead
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Ethnopornography as Methodology and Critique / Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, and Neil L. Whitehead 1
Part I. Visualizing Race
1. Exotic/Erotic/Ethnopornographic: Black Women, Desire, and Labor in the Photographic Archive / Mireille Miller-Young 41
2. "Hung, Hot, and Shameless in Bed": Blackness, Desire, and Politics in a Brazilian Gay Porn Magazine, 1997-2008 / Bryan Pitts 67
3. The Ghosts of Gaytanamo / Beatrix McBride 97
4. Under White Men's Eyes: Racialized Eroticism, Ethnographic Encounters, and the Maintenance of the Colonial Order / Sidra Lawrence 118
Part II. Ethnopornography as Colonial History
5. Franciscan Voyeurism in Sixteenth-Century New Spain / Pete Sigal 139
6. European Travelogues and Ottoman Sexuality: Sodomitical Crossings Abroad, 1550-1850 / Joseph Allen Boone 169
7. Sexualizing the Other: From Ethnopornography to Interracial Pornography in European Travel Writing about West African Women / Pernille Ipsen 205
8. "Men Like Us": The Invention of Ethnopornography / Helen Pringle 225
Conclusion: Ethnopornography Coda / Neil L. Whitehead 245
Contributors 253
Index 257
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